University Science and Engineering Facilities Apply to Speak

No longer accepting speaking applications

This conference focuses on planning, design, and construction of higher education research and education facilities for science, engineering, and emerging technology programs.

Tradeline conferences are produced for the benefit of building owners/end users, and individuals from owner organizations typically represent more than 50% of the total conference audience.

All stakeholders who are interested in speaking at the conference are tasked to demonstrate innovative ideas, models, equipment, and/or solutions for capital project planning, programming, and management targeting trending space types and pressing new institutional objectives:

TYPES of SPACE:

High growth programs: A.I., data sciences, robotics, applied science and engineering
Basic sciences and engineering
Applied sciences and engineering
Research facilities
Health sciences
Classrooms, class labs, and project space
Maker space
Innovation hubs and entrepreneurship space

GENERAL PRESENTATION OBJECTIVES:

Identify new space allocation and utilization metrics and benchmarks
Improve capital project execution – construction costs, timing, contracts, delivery strategies
Increase flexibility and optimum use of facilities
Improve decarbonization initiatives
Support convergence of the sciences, technology, and engineering programs and space
Increase research laboratory capacity and improve lab environments
Support student engagement, project development, and entrepreneurship
Stimulate collaboration and connectivity
Raise the efficiency and effectiveness of resource use – space, budgets, and technology

Your presentation may call upon one or more of the following issues (or your own creative solutions) to meet the objectives above:

Space allocation, metrics, and layouts for labs, classrooms, support space, and offices
Improved space utilization
Renovation and modernization of outdated facilities
Successful decarbonization initiatives
Strategies for sharing resources
Capital project and construction management processes that lower costs and optimize outcomes
Repurposing non-science space for applied sciences and engineering programs
Inceasing student engagement and interaction
Programming, design, and construction of new buildings
Facility flexibility and adaptability for shared use and rapidly changing programs
New classroom configurations for hybrid learning, active learning, team-based education
Research labs and multidisciplinary research facilities
Mixed teaching and research facilities; Interdisciplinary research facility plans
Integrating data-science based programs with exisiting and new research space
Facility features for student and researcher recruitment
Maker space and project lab plans
Highly specialized space: Cleanroom, cGMP, imaging, robotics, etc.
Decision-making on renovation vs. building new
Transparency and enabling visual connections
Integrating student innovation and entrepreneurship programs
Effective social and informal learning space
Building vibration controls, EMI, and equipment precision safeguards
High-efficiency, low-cost mechanical system solutions
Environmental control systems and sensors: Occupancy, acoustics, air quality, temperature, humidity
Building automation systems and facility technology implementation
Energy reduction, water conservation, and sustainability strategies
Lower construction and operation costs

APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS

To complete a speaking application, you will need:

Presentation title, one-paragraph summary, and up to four takeaway ideas
Speaker names, contact information, Bio/CV, and headshot image